She will then begin to lay her eggs and sit on them like a bird - these spring queens represent the next generation of bumblebee colonies. But exactly how thiamethoxam blocks the queens ...

Bumblebee queens exposed to the pesticide were 26 percent less likely to lay eggs, compared to queens that weren't exposed to the pesticide. The team published their findings in the journal Nature ...

New research published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B has found that wild bumblebee queens are less able to develop their ovaries when exposed to a common neonicotinoid ...